Get your inspiration from reading qoutes from other artists.
I wished you to be persuaded, that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend, is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind… We may go so far as to assert, that a painter stands in need of more knowledge than is to be picked off his pallet, or collected by looking on his model, whether it be in life or in picture. He can never be a great artist, who is grossly illiterate… He ought to know something concerning the mind, as well as a great deal concerning the body of man.
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA, Discourses VII, 1769
Architects, sculptors, painters – we all must return to craftsmanship! For there is no such thing as “art by profession". There is no essential difference between the artist and the artisan. The artist is an exalted artisan.
Walter Gropius, 1919
The mutual influence of form and colour now becomes clear. A yellow triangle, a blue circle, a green square, or a green triangle, a yellow circle, a blue square – all these are different and have different spiritual values.
Wassily Kandinsky, 1912
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 Wassily Kandinsky |
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 SirJoshua Reynold Sarah Campbell |
 SirJoshua Reynold selfportrait |
 Tzara ManRay |
 Augustus Keppel by SirJoshua Reynold |
A work
of art is never beautiful by decree, objectively and for all. Hence criticism is useless, it exists only subjectively, for each man separately, without the slightest character of universality… Dada was born of a need for independence, of a distrust toward unity. Those who are with us preserve their freedom. We recognize no theory.
Tristan Tzara, 1918
1. Stuckism is the quest for authenticity.
2. Painting is the medium of self-discovery.
3. Stuckism proposes a model of art which is holistic.
4. Artists who don’t paint aren’t artists.
5. Art that has to be in a gallery to be art isn’t art.
The Stuckists, 1999
Nothing in art is new or old fashioned, only good or bad.
Grayson Perry RA, 2014